i'm willie geist. kristen welker is still up and live at obama headquarters in chicago. kristen, have you slept at all. >> reporter: haven't slept at all, you know, but it was worth it to witness the historic evening. i can tell you the crowd was just electrified here when president obama delivered his victory speech. you talked about some of the highlights of it. he thanked all of those who made his victory possible, but he also made a pretty strong call for bipartisanship saying that he would like to meet with his republican challenger mitt romney to talk about ways to move the country forward in a stronger direction, and he also pledged to reach across the aisle in this second term to work with republicans, to do a better job of that, to deal with things like the deficit and also to deal with immigration. of course, though, those are two issues that really dogged the president during his first term, but the one issue that was his greatest challenge to re-election, willie, i don't have to tell you, because you have talked about this a lot, the economy, and that is one